The forest keeper : the true story of Jadav Payeng / by Rina Singh ; illustrated by Ishita Jain.
Material type:
TextPublisher: New York : North South, 2023Copyright date: ©2023Description: 1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations, color map ; 29 cmContent type: - text
- still image
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780735845053
- 0735845050
| Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Children's Book
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Main Library | Children's Biography | PAYENA, Y. S617 | Available | 33111011286412 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Trees don't grow on sandbars . . . but a boy from India grew a forest.
What can one person do in the face of global environmental degradation? Indian Jadav Payeng has proven that each and every one of us can make a difference. As a boy, he began planting trees on a sandbank in the state of Assam. Nobody believed that he would succeed in doing so. But since 1979, a forest the size of Central Park has emerged, offering a home to countless animals and plants. It was not until 2007 that a photographer accidentally discovered the forest and made Payeng known to the world beyond India.
Rina Singh has sensitively retraced the story of young Jadav. In Ishita Jain's picture book debut as illustrator, readers feel immersed in the spectacular habitat whose existence borders on a miracle come true.
Recounts the true story of Jadav Payeng, who, as a boy, grew a forest in the state of Assam, which offered a home to countless plants and animals and became an extraordinary habitat whose existence borders on a miracle come true.